She uses the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Microsoft in the 1990s as a model for continued federal harassment of and tyranny over American businesses.

I argued that this absurd lawsuit aimed to restrict the creative and commercial freedom of Microsoft in a way that would be akin to telling Apple they aren’t allowed to include cameras on their phones because it would be anti-competitive.

Well, maybe I shouldn’t have given Elizabeth Warren any ideas.

Elizabeth Warren Wants to Kneecap Apple

Elizabeth Warren says Apple shouldn’t be able to make apps while running an app platform. | Source: Shutterstock

She piled on over the weekend with a call to force Apple Inc. to choose between running an app store which is a platform, or making apps to participate on the platform. Apple’s stock is doing fine Monday as well with a solid $5.77 (3.34%) gain.

Warren said:

“It’s got to be one or the other. Either they run the platform or they play in the store. They don’t get to do both at the same time.”

Says who? Queen Elizabeth? No one died and made Elizabeth Warren queen. This is America. We don’t have that here. And what a completely random and arbitrary rule.

That would be like saying McDonald’s can run the counters and drive-thru windows where you buy food, but that’s the platform. They have to choose between showing you the menu and ringing up your order or making the items that are on the menu.

Or proposing that Walmart can’t sell its own brands in its stores.

Mind Your Own Business, Senator Warren

Elizabeth Warren has probably never written a line of code in her entire life. Maybe she’s written 1/1024th of a line of computer code, but that doesn’t count.

Or maybe she’s written tax code.

But she’s going to tell these engineers, software developers, designers, business executives, and artists what they’re allowed to do and what they’re not allowed to do?

And all their customers too?

Elizabeth Warren thinks she has some legitimate right to dictate to all these people their own choices and impose her terms for their mutually consensual commercial engagements.

Because she won an insane, media circus-driven popularity contest in Massachusetts.

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Grew up reading Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Bible, Ayn Rand, John Locke, and Robert Heinlein while listening to conservative talk radio, reading used economics textbooks, and reading through most mainstream political newspapers and magazines.